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If Asians Said The Stuff White People Say (Original Post) IronLionZion Jun 2017 OP
I've never heard anyone say these things. It's false. Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #1
in 14 years here, DUers never cease to amaze me IronLionZion Jun 2017 #2
Everything is online. Feel free to post the numerous examples of people asking Honeycombe8 Jun 2017 #3
A lot of people don't understand why I have a Christian name IronLionZion Jun 2017 #4
That was hilarious. DK504 Jun 2017 #5
I'd chuckle if an Asian talked that way to me, but... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #6
Yup, I've seen it many times IronLionZion Jun 2017 #7
It's depressing. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #8
Case in point BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #9
Have you visited the Asian group? yuiyoshida Jun 2017 #10
Yup, I've posted an OP there earlier IronLionZion Jun 2017 #11
fantastic! yuiyoshida Jun 2017 #12

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
1. I've never heard anyone say these things. It's false.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 08:40 AM
Jun 2017

Don't know the purpose of such a video, except to damage race relations.

As for the fork vs. chopsticks...that one is valid. It's recognized the world over that using one's hands or forks & spoons is easier than using chopsticks. Using chopsticks requires practice. People naturally eat with their hands...no practice needed. No practice needed for using a spoon or fork.

IronLionZion

(45,261 posts)
2. in 14 years here, DUers never cease to amaze me
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 08:59 AM
Jun 2017

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I guarantee I haven't seen many of the things you've experienced in your life either. Maybe it's false too?


Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
3. Everything is online. Feel free to post the numerous examples of people asking
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 09:16 AM
Jun 2017

Asian Americans if they're adopted, or the other things in this video.

I'm over 60 so have lived a few years, including back in the dark ages. I've pretty much heard it all. But not these silly things.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
5. That was hilarious.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 10:08 AM
Jun 2017

As for it being true. Sorry, I have heard the Asian sterotype running rampant since I was a kid. In the South growing up in a family of WWII vets and WWII people that grew up while the war was raging and said every disgusting mane there is for Asians. Even to this day I still hear shit like that.

When I told my mother I was dating someone that was half Japanese, my family was shocked I would date a "non-white". She went to Tulane University for God's sake, it isn't a slacker school either. So yeah, they say shit like that to this day, my nephew/godson dates a girl of Asian decent, my family is shocked he is dating her and how can he date an Asian girl? I swear, they are those assholes that say shit like that, but behind their backs, 'cause that's the polite Southern standards.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,847 posts)
6. I'd chuckle if an Asian talked that way to me, but...
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 10:56 AM
Jun 2017

... it's easier since I'm part of the white majority/plurality. I might feel more threatened by it as a minority.

Some of the most racist (anti-black) people that I've met are other minorities, though. I don't even want to repeat some of the examples here. One of the more tame examples that I'll share is that a married couple from Sri Lanka became very upset when I said that all humans originated in Africa. They insisted that THEIR ancestors didn't come from there. I asked them several questions about it, wondering if their beliefs were based on religion/tradition or something (like Native Americans who also think their ancestors didn't come from elsewhere), but that wasn't the case. It was blatantly obvious that they just didn't want to be related to any Africans. They both told me that maybe I was related to them (I'm white), but they were NOT! It struck me as funny that they were both darker skinned than any of the African Americans who worked at that place.

IronLionZion

(45,261 posts)
7. Yup, I've seen it many times
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:08 AM
Jun 2017

climbing up the ladder by stepping on the heads of others. There were Asians and Jews who owned slaves in the American south and Caribbean as a way of proving they were part of the superior class of people in power. It seems completely insane to me.

I've had 2 cousins marry black men and it was eye opening to hear some of the awful comments from some of my distant relatives. Many of us are just as dark as any black people. (We're South Indian)

South Indians are so similar looking to African people that Mindy Kaling's brother did a social experiment where he pretended to be black to get into medical school.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,847 posts)
8. It's depressing.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:18 AM
Jun 2017

The over-generalizations by some people can go beyond race too. Hearing Ann Coulter demonize liberals in such ignorant ways is one of many examples. I'm not bothered as much if someone mentions tendencies among various groups, especially if there's evidence to back it up, but I'm annoyed by simple minds that try to make it universal.

I think many Republicans have fascist tendencies (being anti-democratic if it suits their desire for more money-based power), but I don't think they're ALL that way.

BumRushDaShow

(127,319 posts)
9. Case in point
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 11:51 AM
Jun 2017


ABOVE: Kamala Harris (left) with her mother Dr. Shayamala Gopalan (center) and sister Maya Harris (right).



ABOVE: Young Kamala with mother



ABOVE: Father - Donald Harris (Jamaican-American professor)
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